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How To Make An Old Fashioned Cocktail

Old Fashioned Cocktail. Diego Garcia, Bar Manager at the Oxo Tower Bar and Brasserie, show you how to make the perfect Old Fashioned Cocktail. Savour our an Old Fashioned Cocktail. Enlarge

How To Make An Old Fashioned Cocktail

Old Fashioned Cocktail. Diego Garcia, Bar Manager at the Oxo Tower Bar and Brasserie, show you how to make the perfect Old Fashioned Cocktail. Savour our an Old Fashioned Cocktail.

Step 1: You will need

  • 1 short glass
  • 1 muddler
  • 1 bar spoon
  • 1 single shot measure (bottom shallow half)
  • 1 double shot measure

Step 2: Orange

First, place about 3 slices of orange in a glass

Step 3: Cherries

Add a couple of cherries

Step 4: Angostura

A few drops of Angostura bitters

Step 5: Muddle

Lightly muddle the fruit with the Angostura in the glass

Step 6: Remove fruit

Squeeze out as much juice from the fruit as possible with a bar spoon and take out the remaining orange slices and cherries.

Step 7: Sugar gomme

Add 3 teaspoons of sugar gomme

Step 8: Bourbon and ice

Now start adding the bourbon. Measure the first 10 ml and add to the glass. Then add a few ice cubes and slowly stir for about 20 seconds. Repeat this a few times with a further 50 ml of bourbon, so you are adding about 10 ml each time, followed by a little ice and then stirring, until the glass is full of ice and 60 ml of bourbon has been added in total.

Step 9: Garnish

Cut a sliver of orange peel and squeeze some of its juice into the cocktail. Run it around the rim of the glass and drop it into the drink. Finish by adding a cherry.

Step 10: And serve

Serve